Condemned

Another square subject for Square September

After I'd finished my volunteering at the children's centre, I walked home via the Mason Road estate, aka the Top of Town estate, and the cemetery. The Top of Town Estate is, along with the Paganhill estate on the other side of town, Stroud's largest council housing estate. Many of the clients of the children's centre live there.

Some of the houses have been condemned, owing to 'concrete cancer'. They are to be knocked down and replaced with 'affordable housing' according to the Stroud District council turquoise hoarding around them. Not with new council houses.

There was no one around so I sneaked this shot in, seeing as it was tailor made for a square crop. It was either that, or a cute kitten under a car. We know what the local issues are, though, and they don't include kittens, unless they are being killed by Staffies... (I love Staffies, btw, just repeating the headline I saw on the billboard outside the shop).

In other news, I spent over an hour preparing dinner (courgette lasagne, would you believe it) and then pulled it out of the grill too fast, ensuring it ended up on my legs; the oven door; and the floor. CleanSteve rescued it while I sat down and laughed hysterically. Now there are chunks of ricotta stuck inside the glass oven door.

AND We booked our ferry tickets: we are off to Holland via Dunkirk, in a little over five weeks' time. We'll be visiting my brother and his family, who live in a little-known town called Oestrogen Geesteren.